Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. 1 (context science fiction English) A means of traveling faster than light. 2 (context science fiction English) a drive that moves a vehicle through hyperspace 3 A state of accelerated action
Wikipedia
Hyperdrive is a name given to certain methods of traveling faster-than-light (FTL) in science fiction. Related concepts are jump drive and warp drive.
Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom broadcast by BBC Two in 2006 and 2007. The working title was Full Power. In a 2008 interview, Kevin Eldon commented that he considered a third series was unlikely to be commissioned. Set in 2151 and 2152, it follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock as they stumble through their heroic mission to protect British interests in a changing galaxy.
The series is written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, directed by John Henderson and produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor. The first episode was broadcast on BBC Two on 11 January 2006. A second series began on 12 July 2007 on BBC Two.
Hyperdrive may refer to
- Hyperdrive, a hypothetical method of space travel
- Hyperdrive (TV series), a BBC television science fiction sitcom
- Hyperdrive (Star Wars), a means of space travel in the fictional Star Wars universe
- Hyperdrive (Transformers), a Decepticon Micromaster in the Transformers toy line
- Hyper Drive (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's), the English opening theme song to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Hyperdrive is a racing video game made by Midway Games in 1997 for the Arcade platform.
Usage examples of "hyperdrive".
Only warpdrive and hyperdrive are practical for traversing interstellar distances.
It had been a problem since the first hyperdrive had been tested thirty thousand years earlier.
Long Shot: Prototype Quantum II hyperdrive spacecraft, first ship to visit the galactic core.
A slice of hull running almost nose to tail had been cut away, exposing housing, cargo space, docking for a Lander now destroyed, thruster plates, and the hyperdrive motor housing.
Louis had stranded the Hindmost in Ringworld space by chopping the hyperdrive in half, twelve or thirteen years ago.
In the Blind Spot, in hyperdrive, Louis had never been able to see anything.
Shot: Prototype Quantum II hyperdrive spacecraft, first ship to visit the galactic core.
Hindmost in Ringworld space by chopping the hyperdrive in half, twelve or thirteen years ago.
CST had solved the communications problem for ships in hyperdrive by using modulated pulses of the hysradar function.
To supply power for the hyperdrive and the combat systems, fifteen high-capacity niling d-sinks had been installed.
High Angel, giving the people in the crystal domes a good view of her size and shape as she traversed Icalanise, before switching on her hyperdrive and vanishing in a burst of violet light.
This industrial district had been devoted largely to the production of spaceship equipment which the hyperdrive was making as obsolete as fission power.
Once hyperdrive transport has become readily available and cheap, it may well be receiving tourists from all of human space: for it is a curious object, with considerable historical significance as well.
Certainly, when the human hyperdrive armada entered the Centaurian System, Tiamat might well have been destroyed, had not the Belter freedom fighters taken it over from within.
Now that the hyperdrive has abruptly opened a way to far more undertakings than there are ships and personnel to carry out, rivalry for those resources often gets bitter.